"blennophobia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Kate White, If Looks Could Kill, Warner Books, Inc.",
          "text": "\"Well, maybe what you've really got is blennophobia — fear of slime,\" he said.",
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          "text": "He approaches with snurffly sounds and a twitching nose, and your blennophobia (fear of slime) kicks in, producing a hurried word of encouragement and a carrot.",
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          "text": "Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions. They're beset by blennophobia, the fear of slime, and spend long hours plotting the annihilation of slugs and snails.",
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